-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_nyquist/20001218_xcjny_a_knuckle_.shtml > A knuckle sandwich > for America? > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > � 2000 WorldNetDaily.com > > Get ready for a knuckle sandwich. Vladimir Putin is bringing > together > the old Soviet bloc into "one clenched fist." Together with China and > India > and Cuba and North Korea and Iran and Vietnam, etc., the Russians are > openly > saying they will put an end to America's global hegemony. > But how will American hegemony be brought to an end? > > Well, in the first place, there is this growing anti-American > alliance. Also, Russia has been involved for many years in secretive > military preparations, the misuse of IMF funds, along with stealing > and > hacking. > > Hacking? > > Consider the fact that Bill Gates made a set of keys for the > Kingdom > of Internet -- a kingdom that increasingly looks down on every > technical > subsystem in the United States. Consider the fact that Russian > hackers > recently raided Mr. Gates' company, Microsoft, and stole the > aforesaid keys. > According to sources inside Microsoft's Redmond headquarters, the > Russians > penetrated Microsoft's defense system and stole Windows software and > security codes. > > And what can be done with these security codes? > > Contrary to what you might think, Russian hackers are not petty > criminals. They are soldiers in a war, interested in developing a > sabotage > capability against American banks, communications systems, the power > grid > and other basic utilities. Their objective is not to get rich by > stealing > software. Their objective is to defeat the United States by > scrambling the > brains of our computer subsystems. > > Now why would the Russians want to stop the motor of the world? > Why > would they contemplate a cyberattack on America? After all, where is > the > profit in bringing America to its knees? Russians inevitably want > what > Americans want. They want to wear blue jeans and eat burgers. They > want > Coca-Cola and a big American car with tail fins. > > Right? > > Think again, America. Don't believe everything you hear. Moscow > has > cleverly aimed your own capitalist preconceptions back at you. They > have > taken up your own slogans in order to put you to sleep. It is the > ultimate > form of flattery which they employ: "America is great, Russia has > collapsed. > Communism doesn't work." > > Behind the screen provided by this flattery, Russia's leaders > can > openly plot against us, talking to their allies about defeating the > United > States. Nonetheless, as this column pointed out on Thursday, the > Chairman of > the Joint Chiefs simply says that Russia is not our enemy. He is more > worried about China, which has but a fraction of Russia's power. > > Capitalism is victorious, we say. Socialism has failed and > Russia > wants to copy from our system. They want to copy, and they want to > download > off the Internet. Do not pay attention to the man behind the curtain. > Any > war preparations in Russia are merely the pathetic jerkings of a long > dead > corpse. > > But a reversal is underway. According to Gen. William E. Odom, > writing > in the Wall Street Journal on Dec. 13, "A pseudo-Soviet normalcy is > emerging > in Russia as glasnost declines and perestroika gives way to new > stagnation." > > Yes, a pseudo-Soviet normalcy is emerging in Russia. But Odom > is wrong > to think this signifies a "new stagnation." No, Gen. Odom, the > Russian > military economy has been upgraded and modernized. To offer one > example, > consider the new submarine the Russians launched last week. But we > are > caught up in Russia's lies. We still believe that only 40 or 50 > fighter-bombers are being built every year in Russia. How, then, do > we > analyze Russia's voracious and unexplained consumption of electricity > and > metals? How do we explain intelligence reports that say thousands of > Russian > fighter-bombers are under construction? > > There is something wrong and we have to wake up. We must stop > flattering ourselves with the idea that our free market system works > while > Russian socialism has failed. > > The fact is, our economic system is no more capitalist than > Russia's > was communist. As Ludwig von Mises pointed out decades ago, a genuine > socialist economy in Russia would have meant a reversion to the stone > age. > And as everyone knows, Russia put the first man in space and built > the first > intercontinental rockets. This is not evidence of what Mises called > socialism. It is something altogether different which once tagged > itself as > socialist. The truth is, Russia's economy is a radically different > type of > capitalist economy, in which consumer production is limited so that > military > production can be perfected. What we have called socialism in Russia > is > merely a system for restricting consumption by forcibly diverting all > the > best brains and material into weapons. > > A couple of years ago I sat next to Col. Stanislav Lunev at a > party. > Lunev is a high ranking GRU defector from Russia. Lunev and I were > listening > to a retired politician praise Reagan and Thatcher for "defeating > socialism," and for saving the free market. Col. Lunev was puzzled by > this. > He leaned over and whispered to me: "What is he talking about?" > > "I don't get it either," I replied. > > "The West is a socialist paradise," Lunev continued, whispering > again > into my ear. "Each according to his ability, each according to his > need has > been realized in America. But in Russia there is true rugged > individualism, > with every man for himself." > > Lunev's stunning reversal, where the West is Marxist and the > East is > following a primitive capitalist model, is not without merit. For > example, > most Russians grow their own food, engaging in a basic kind of > capitalism > that Americans do not. The state does not really take care of people > in > Russia. If you have ever been in a Russian hospital you would > understand > this perfectly. Because the state didn't really do much for the > Russian > people, it forced them to do things for themselves. The Russian black > market, in reality, is a capitalist system unto itself. Perhaps it is > more > free-wheeling than anything that exists in the West. > > Meanwhile, in the West, corporations which resemble giant > socialist > collectives have combined with the welfare state to take care of the > poor, > the unemployed, and the unfortunate. Therefore, it could be said with > a > little humor, that the West is more Marxist than the East. > > Of course, we shouldn't go overboard with this. The lesson to > be > learned is that highly idealized categories -- like "capitalism" and > "socialism" -- can be very misleading when applied to real life. > > Russia's so-called "collapse" is therefore an equivocal event, > poorly > understood in the West. Any assumption we make about their system, > based on > our own ideological prejudices or stereotypes, is bound to be wrong. > Even > more dangerous, we should not delude ourselves about the true nature > of our > own system -- which has become incredibly socialistic. > > The real competition between nations involves a game of power > politics. To play this game you must set aside stereotypes and strive > to > understand what is really happening. In doing this, you must stick to > facts > and not theories. > > In this regard, the words of Russian President Vladimir Putin > are not > theories. They express his intentions and the direction of his > policy. > During Putin's visit to Cuba, the Russian president made the > following > statement. He said: "Russia intends to bridge the gap between the > so-called > golden billion and the rest of humanity -- and we will be solving > this > question by taking our very good ties with Cuba into account." > > The "golden billion" are those who live in the developed > countries -- > the so-called capitalist countries. On the other side stand the > global > have-nots -- the "rest of humanity," as Putin calls them. The > bridging of > the gap between the two sides, according to Putin, means the end of > America's economic and military power. He is not talking about making > the > poor countries rich, but instead he is talking about making the rich > countries poor. His language is clearly not that of a business man. > It is > the language of a commanding general. Talking of America's position > as the > world's leading country, Putin said, "Similar attempts at world > domination > were made numerous times throughout the course of history ... and it > is well > known how they all ended." > > Fidel Castro, the communist dictator of Cuba, agreed that the > dominance of America and the "golden billion" had to end. It was, > after all, > a grave injustice to allow some people to live better than other > people: " > Even in the age of colonialism and slavery," said Castro, "the poor > were not > stolen from by the rich like this." > > Recently there have been cigarette ads in Moscow. A Russian > brand, > named Zolotaya Yava, says it is "striking back" at America. To > visualize > this process, the Statue of Liberty is depicted in a Russian fur hat. > > The Russians have hacked into Microsoft for a reason. They are > lying > about their own military capabilities and budget for a reason. > Russia's > president has flown to Cuba for a reason. It is time for us to set > aside the > stupid idea that the Cold War ever ended. > > It is time to get ready for a knuckle sandwich. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. 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